Bangladesh is now in the 15th position in global corruption index prepared by Transparency International (TI).
The most corrupt country of 2016 is Somalia, while the least corrupt countries are Denmark and New Zealand, according to the international corruption ...

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, today warned about possible reprisals against people she met during her recent official visit to the country (9 to 21 January). “There is one word that has hu...

The International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS) has warned against the planned relocation of the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
“[Such a move] would be a brazen violation of UN resolutions,” the Doha-based body said in a statement relea...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is likely to arrive here on a three-day state visit next month to advance the “special relations” with Bangladesh.
The Palestinian side has proposed February 1-3 for the visit but the date is yet to be finalised, a diplom...

The Saudi finance ministry said on Sunday there would be no fees applied on remittances out of the country, days after the kingdom\'s advisory Shoura Council said it was looking at a proposal to impose a 6 percent levy on expatriate remittances. Saudi Arabia is \"c...

At the age of free flow of capital and liberal visa regime, Bangladeshi travellers hold passports that are considered one of ‘worst’ ones in terms of easy access to any another country. The Bangladesh passport holders enjoy visa-free entry or can obtain vis...

Following the Narayanganj seven-murder verdict, the Human Rights Watch has urged the government to take immediate steps to disband Rapid Action Battalion and replace it with a rights respecting force.A Narayanganj court on Monday sentenced 26 people, including 16 former...

A Lakshmipur court has sentenced 11 activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Awami Juba League to different terms in jail in a case in connection with an attempt to murder the BCL’s district unit vice president Ashraful Alam.
In protest against the verdic...

India’s Border Security Force on Wednesday returned the body of a Bangladeshi national three days after they recovered it along the Bangladesh-India border in Chapainawabganj. The Bangladeshi national, Ismail, 19, is son of Habibur Rahman of the village Ghughupar...

Around six million people have been displaced from their homes due to the effects of climate change in Bangladesh, International Organization for Migration (IOM) said today.
Increased temperature and variations in rainfall are the most prevalent elements of c...

The Bangladesh government clamped down on media and civil society and state authorities detained, maimed, killed, and disappeared members of the political opposition, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2017. Bangladesh authorities have failed to...

On August 8, a Bangladesh news website published an article claiming that two militants – Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury, allegedly ISIS’s Bangladesh coordinator, and sacked army major Syed Ziaul Haq, said to be behind a series of targeted killings &nd...

Indonesia is carrying out intensive diplomacy with bridge building between Myanmar and Bangladesh to help address the Rohingya humanitarian crisis.
The Straits Times wrote this on Tuesday, quoting Indonesia’s foreign minister Retno Marsudi.
Jakarta is also keepi...

Shop owners of the DCC market which caught fire in the wee hours of Tuesday have alleged their shops were set on fire as part of a conspiracy to evict the market.
Talking to the media, most of the shop owners who rushed to the scene to save their shops don&rs...

The Saudi embassy in Dhaka has withdrawn the restriction on visas for male migrant workers, said a leader of Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (Baira) yesterday.
The embassy had imposed the restriction, saying that recruiting agencies we...